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The Gumps were utterly ordinary: chinless, bombastic blowhard Andy Gump (short for Andrew), who is henpecked by his wife, Min (short for Minerva); their sons Chester and baby Goliath (plus an unnamed daughter in college and an unnamed son in the Navy); wealthy Uncle Bim; and their annoying maid Tilda. They had a cat named Hope and a dog named Buck.
The Gump is a central character in Disney's 1985 live action fantasy film Return to Oz, performed and voiced by Lyle Conway and assisted in the performance by Steve Norrington. Depicted somewhat like a green-furred moose, this Gump is assembled by Tik-Tok, Jack Pumpkinhead, and Billina, with Dorothy Gale applying the Powder of Life.
The Gumps is an American radio sitcom broadcast from 1931 until 1937, mostly on CBS Radio based on the popular Sidney Smith newspaper comic strip The Gumps. It was the first radio adaptation of comics .
The Gumps inspired Amos 'n' Andy and thus had a huge influence on the introduction of radio serial continuity and radio-television situation comedies, as detailed by broadcast historian Elizabeth McLeod in the "Andy Gump to Andy Brown" section of her popular culture essay, "Amos 'n' Andy—In Person," and her book, The Original Amos 'n' Andy: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll, and the 1928–43 ...
Gus Edson - (The Gumps, Dondi) Hy Eisman - (continued Little Lulu, Popeye and The Katzenjammer Kids) Will Eisner - (The Spirit, A Contract with God) Will Elder - (Mad Magazine, Panic, co-creator of Goodman Beaver and Little Annie Fanny) Grace Ellis; Harlan Ellison; Randy Emberlin; Steve Englehart; Rod Espinoza - (Neotopia, The Courageous ...
The director of such beloved movies as the “Back to the Future” series, “Forrest Gump,” “Cast Away,” “Death Becomes Her” and “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” has delivered almost as ...
The next day's newspapers, in the space formerly occupied by Old Doc Yak, printed the first strip of Smith's The Gumps, showing the Gumps moving into the house formerly occupied by the Yak family. Old Doc Yak continued as a Sunday strip until June 15, 1919, [ 2 ] when Yak was depicted selling his car to Andy Gump so he and Yutch could move away ...
In an interview with Yahoo's Michael Yo, who caught up with Hall for The Yo Show a few years ago, Hall said that she, then 10 years old, had 'no concept' of how big "Forrest Gump" would be.